Increasingly, manufacturing begins not in a factory, but in a computer. Whether it’s a completely new sports car designed by thousands of enthusiasts in a “co-creation” environment or the organisation of the millions of lines of code behind most innovations in production-line cars, software is where the action is...

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A little company called Local Motors has taken a big, radical business plan - crowd-sourced designs, microfactories, customer-assisted manufacturing - from theory to reality. Now, its first car, the Rally Fighter, is entering production. Check out this video of the Rally Fighter being tested in the deserts of California......